Something like Kinetic for the Wii?

davidlizard

I was short of ideas for Xmas so suggested to my wife to go out and get a Kinect.

She tried every shop down town and they were all sold out. She tried a few places on line, and many of those were sold out. Eventually picked one up in Argos - reserved at the fifth closest store to us, the closest 4 stores had all sold out. Some of the more expensive ones bundled with additional games were more readily available though. I would therefore suggest that if someone is wanting one for Xmas then it could be prudent to act now, even though Microsoft usually try to meet demand.

Had a quick peek at it but have put it away for Xmas now. Incidentally, the picture on the back of the box shows a couple dancing around with the Kinect at the base of the telly.

Interesting article here - someone pulls one to bits to look at the technology inside it.

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft-Kinect-Teardown/4066/1

Enterprise_1701C

I would not swap a good game on Wii Mariocart with my OH for the Kinnect - good way to get rid of tensions, we can bomb each other to our heart's content! :D

Shall definitely be sticking with the Wii.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

We've bought a Kinect for my son's Christmas. Obviously we had to test that it worked one day while he was at school last week.

The first thing is that you have to be a suitable distance from the Kinect so that it can see you head to toe. We had to move my son's bedroom around a bit to accomodate this.

We sat it on the desk the TV sits on, so it was effectively below the TV. It doesn't need to be on top of the TV.

During the set-up the Kinect moves its head up and down so that it can pick up your whole body. It basically turns you into a stick figure to track your movement.

I played a couple of the games on Kinect Adventures. I can't remember what they're called but the first involved trying to break through a wall with balls that you bounced off your body back to the wall. Any balls that went past your body were lost. What I did notice is that there's a slight delay from your movement to the movement on screen. This meant you had to slightly anticipate the balls reaching you.
The other game, the one where you're going down the river in the inflatable raft was much more fun. Moving side to side to steer the raft and jumping to make the raft leap at waterfalls to get coins (or stars, I can't remember). The Kinect also takes photos of you at opportune times, which it then shows you at the end of the level. They can be quite amusing and you can share these with your friends.

There aren't many games at the moment. Not surprisingly there's a few dance and fitness ones.

There is a driving one out there, but by all accounts it's not that great because as you've no controller, all you do is steer. The game brakes and accelerates for you.

I had fun with the Adventures game. It just depends whether they can make games to make it worthwhile for the price of the Kinect.